Category: Something to Eat and Drink?

Brothers Maxime, Malik and Yannis’s Blanchette has been the darling of the French bistro scene in Soho since its opening in 2013, and has expanded its simple classic French sharing dishes to Shoreditch with Blanchette East. The offering is something like a French version of the Salt Yard group. Not a surprise given it’s backing…

The Hart brothers are at it again. Having created London’s favourite tapas bar, Barrafina, they have now partnered with Sam’s old business partner, Crispin Somerville, to open the hottest Mexican joint (no, not the herbal type) in town: Tacos El Pastor. The name, of course, doesn’t leave room for confusion about what it specialises in.…

Immaculate in its design, Fortnum’s The Fountain Restaurant’s replacement, 45 Jermyn Street, is a sure bet from design to plate. Pure Heaven Unlike the tired tea room that it replaced 18 months ago, 45 is run as a separate entity, rather than a restaurant within Fortnum’s, and is a place I have loved since its…

Those who have been in London in the last few years will be acquainted with Polpo, and those of you unacquainted with it should rectify this asap if you have any love of good simple Italian – the frito misto with a martini makes for a great light meal mid afternoon. Anyway, as soon as…

Imagine you’re at home typing away articles that may never be read, and your fiancé walks into the room, having just got home from work, and announces ‘We’ve been invited by Micky and Minnie to dinner with them at a Scottish restaurant. Shall we go?’ What is the correct response to this? When I found…

With the easily available supply of wine in supermarkets, the innumerable wine clubs, and still-surviving wine chains like Majestic, Nicolas and Oddbins, who needs a small independent wine shop? Everyone, is the answer. Well, everyone who enjoys quality wine. The problem is that they’re few and far between. Or that was the problem till the…

Peruvian food, particularly ceviche, has become the favourite cuisine of London. Appearing in one form or another on most middle and top end menus, it seems there’s no end in sight for its popularity. New Peruvian restaurants continue to open, with more and more heading here are opening establishments at the top end of the…

Peruvian cuisine may have conquered London, with ceviche found on any menu that purports to be on trend. Varieties abound from the types of fish used to the elements used to make the tiger’s milk, the acidity of which cooks the fish. Ceviche and Senior Ceviche are the names most know and by far two…

It’s fair to say that tapas has taken over London during the past few years, be it in the traditional sense of the word, or as shorthand to describe the sharing plates that have become the ubiquitous offering of almost every trendy restaurant opening in the past half decade. It’s a trend – along with…

Many top chefs have come to their profession by a circuitous route. Gordon Ramsey famously planned to be a footballer, while Daniel Burns and Jeppe Jarnit-Bjergsø of Torst/Luksus in New York came from careers as a philosophy and mathematics graduate with dreams of winning the Fields Medal, and as a teacher, respectively. Virgilio Martinez perhaps…

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